Pitcher fractures elbow with nondescript throw

A pitch has gone horribly wrong for a Major League Baseball ace after he fractured his elbow with a throw from the mound.

Braves relief pitcher Daniel Winkler was on the mound in the seventh innings of Atlanta’s clash with the St. Louis Cardinals when things went awry in dramatic fashion.

Footage shows a nondescript Winkler pitch drift to the batter’s right and well wide of the plate as the Brewers pitcher clutches his right elbow in severe pain before slumping to the ground in severe pain in front of the team’s dugout

The injury was later confirmed as a fractured elbow with Winkler facing an indefinite layoff.

"Just got the cutter away and all of a sudden just heard a crack, "I knew exactly what it was right when it happened," Winkler said.

“All that was running through my mind was, 'not now, not again.' Hopefully the ligament's still fine and it's just bone.”

It continues a wretched injury run for the 26-year-old, who had just recovered from Tommy John surgery, a colloquial name in the USA for a procedure where a ligament in the elbow is replaced with a tendon from another part of the body.